Eritreans deserve another chance to show their preferences in internationally supervised referendum. They desrve to freely choose however they want to live:
Unity with Ethiopia, federation, or independence.

It is an interesting discussion much much better than the one hosted by vision Ethiopia. I admire the frankness of all participants and balanced approach of the interviewer Abebe Belew. I must agree with most of their opinions except one thing. Especially, the referendum of Eritrea was not accounted the legitimate interest of Ethiopia which is the case of the Afar people and the Red Sea coastline. The referendum was held without a legitimate government of Ethiopia and under the auspice of UN which was led by a citizen of hostile nation called Butros Butros Ghali. Therefore, our Eritrean brothers can not simply ignore that blatant injustice committed against 90 plus million of Ethiopians. It is true that Eritrea is a recognized nation, but it doesn’t mean that it has the sole right to render a historical nation without breathing space to access the seas and the outside world. The question of the Afar people and the Red Sea coastline will not simply disappear as some of our brothers think. The fact of the matter is it is a time bomb sooner or later will explode and engulf both nations. We have to be reasonable understand that Ethiopia has an inherent national security interest given the fact that it is surrounded by hostile nations. Countries like Egypt from thousands miles afar are claiming a historical rights over the waters of Nile that Ethiopia has produced 85% of it! The Red Sea coastline was a sovereign territory of Ethiopia till 25 years ago. Ignoring this fact is irresponsible and has far reaching consequences for Eritrea itself. Eritreans were fighting for the past decades, because they felt that they have to correct historical injustice made by annexation against UN recognized federal association. They should also expect that Ethiopians will go down that road to correct that same injustice made by two Eritreans namely Meles Zenawi and Isayas Afeworki.
In my view, Eritreans and Ethiopians should recognize the need for win win solution by correcting the historical injustice and accepting one another as sister countries. The ball is in Eritreans court should they wish to grow and prosper. You can not simply deceive 90+ million people and have a sound sleep. Sometimes, I am taken aback by the sheer magnitude of human greed, illusion and to unlearn from history. The recent return of Crimea to Russia should have been served as a good lesson to our brothers in Eritrea. As some gullible Ethiopians as well as Eritreans has claimed Ethiopia’s interest is not the port of Assab per see, but the Afar – the rightful citizens of Ethiopia and more than 600 KM coastline just down Massawa. We like it or not, that proportion of injustice simply will not evaporate in to the thin air. It is high time for Eritreans to come to their sense and opt for a win win durable solution. After that we can talk in pure brotherhood and open heart to stand and grow together.
Regarding the oppositions in both countries, they should refrain from having sides to both dictatorial regimes. The people of Ethiopia and Eritrea will be better off without SHAABIYA and EPRFF.

I think at this time we don’t have to entertain Eritrea issue we just have to tackle it later once we have a government that represent the majority of its subjects. At this time we have to close our border to Eritrea and no alliance with the government. It will be our next agenda to review and come up with a peaceful solution to:
-get back Assab
-get our ex-soldiers (prisoners who are at Eritrea prison camps)
-have a border that is drawn before the Arrival of Italian in Eritrea
We have to make sure that any Eritrean government now or in the future to
know that Ethiopia does need Eritrean government at all.

Long live Ethiopia

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